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Watch sum of the Grand Slam Track lawsuit from Miramar, Fla., contiguous astatine 5 p.m. ET connected CBCSports.ca, featuring Canada's Marco Arop competing successful the 1,500 metres.
Live sum begins astatine 5 p.m. ET; American way prima Kerley to miss lawsuit aft arrest
Thomson Reuters
· Posted: May 02, 2025 11:49 AM EDT | Last Updated: 3 minutes ago
Click connected the video supra contiguous astatine 5 p.m. ET arsenic the Grand Slam Track lawsuit stages its second-ever meet.
CBC Sports volition diagnostic unrecorded coverage, including Canada's Marco Arop successful the 1,500 metres from Miramar, Fla.
At the inaugural Slam past period successful Jamaica, Arop won the 800m and placed sixth retired of 8 successful the 1,500m — a region he'd raced conscionable doubly earlier successful his career — to decorativeness 2nd successful the men's abbreviated distance.
Group victor Emmanuel Wanyonyi of Kenya, who bushed Arop for the 800m golden astatine the Paris Olympics, is not competing this week.
But Arop volition erstwhile again look Americans Cole Hocker and Yared Nuguse and Great Britain's Josh Kerr — the full 1,500m podium from Paris.
Andre De Grasse and Jerome Blake are making their Grand Slam debuts implicit the weekend. Their rivals successful the men's abbreviated sprints see American prima Kenny Bednarek, the back-to-back Olympic 200m metallic medallist who won the radical successful Jamaica.
The 100m contention is connected Saturday astatine 6:53 p.m. ET and the 200 goes Sunday astatine 5:21 p.m. ET to adjacent retired the meet. All lawsuit volition beryllium unrecorded streamed connected CBCSports.ca.
American prima arrested
Twice Olympic 100 metres medallist Fred Kerley has been arrested and volition not vie successful Grand Slam Track's inaugural U.S.-based lawsuit successful Miami this weekend, the circuit said connected Friday.
Kerley, who won a bronze medal successful the 100m last astatine the 2024 Paris Olympics and metallic successful the aforesaid region astatine the 2020 Tokyo Games, was scheduled to vie successful the 100m connected Saturday and 200m connected Sunday.
"Fred Kerley was arrested past night. The substance is nether progressive investigation, and each inquiries should beryllium directed to the Broward County Sheriff's Office," Grand Slam Track said successful a statement. "Fred volition not vie this weekend. We person nary further remark astatine this time."
Reuters has contacted Kerley's typical for comment. The Broward County Sheriff's Office did not instantly supply details connected Kerley's apprehension erstwhile contacted by Reuters.
According to media reports, the 29-year-old Kerley was charged with interaction oregon onslaught artillery pursuing an altercation astatine the conscionable edifice and determination was nary timeline for his release.
Kerley competed successful Grand Slam Track's inaugural conscionable past period successful Kingston, Jamaica.
Grand Slam Track, which volition clasp 4 meets successful 2025, was created by four-times Olympic golden medallist Michael Johnson.
The circuit is simply a nonstop situation to the Diamond League, agelong the standard-bearer for the athletics worldwide, which hosts 15 meetings each twelvemonth successful cities from Xiamen to Zurich.
With files from CBC Sports